No Man's Child - Chapter 36

‘That is the road to the vales of Tumladen and Lossarnach, and the mountain-villages, and then on to Lebennin,’ said Beregond. ‘There go the last of the wains that bear away to refuge the aged, the children, and the women that must go with them. They must all be gone from the Gate and the road clear for a league before noon: that was the order. It is a sad necessity.’ He sighed. ‘Few, maybe, of those now sundered will meet again.’

ROTK: Minas Tirith

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Ah, I daresay you have not felt such a tiresome wearing of the hours.

The people of the Angle, aged and young, stretch and rise from the soil upon the day's grey dawning. A coughing has awakened me and I can hear them from within our small nest of baskets and blankets where have curled my son and I. Ah, but the folk press ever around and there is no place of quiet and rest. And now all about is damp and chill, and the sheep and cattle protest the lack of pasture from their paddocks. For it had rained in the night, great black-bellied clouds drifting above us as the barges upon the Bruinen of my youth.
( Continued here )

am bored

Or, perhaps it's "am procrastinating" as I should be writing Chapter 40, which is due... in 1, 2,3, 4 days. As is Chapter 41, which is also not written yet.

Anyway, I give you the "two word meme" stolen from litch. 

Yep, he's a complete stranger.  We just happen to read the same RSS feed.  I really was that bored.  Though he seems like kind of a fun guy.

( two words.. )